Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- SECTION I . GENERAL -- THERMODYNAMICS OF PROTEIN- LIGAND INTERACTIONS / Pohl, Fritz M. -- CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSPORT MECHANISMS BY NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS / Kedem, O. -- CHEMICAL RELAXATION SPECTROMETRY: INVESTIGATION OF MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN MEMBRANE PROCESSES / Ruf, H. / Oberbäumer, I. / Grell, E. -- 13c NMR STUDIES OF GLYCOLYSIS IN SUSPENSIONS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS / Shulman, R. G. / Brown, T. R. / Hollander, J. A. den / Ugurbil, K. -- SECTION II . SELECTED TRANSPORT PROTEINS -- SERUM ALBUMIN AS A TRANSPORT PROTEIN / Peters, Theodore / Reed, Roberta G. -- LIGANDIN AND PROTEIN A: INTRACELLULAR BINDING PROTEINS / Ketterer, B. / Carne, T. / Tipping, E. -- THE ABSENCE OF HEME-HEME INTERACTION AT THE IRON ATOMS OF HEMOGLOBIN / Shulman, R. G. -- MULTI ENZYME COMPLEXES. MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONAL INTERACTION OF ACTIVE SITES WITHIN THE FATTY ACID SYNTHETASE MULTIENZYME COMPLEX OF YEAST / Schweizer, Eckhart / Lynen, Feodor -- MODES OF REDOX-TRANSPORT BY PROTEINS: "HYDRIDE" AND "CARBANION" VERSUS ELECTRON TRANSPORT / Hemmerich, P. -- THE MECHANISM OF ENERGY TRANSDUCTION IN PHOTOPHOSPHORYLATION / Avron, M. -- SECTION III. MEMBRANES AND TRANSPORT BY PROTEINS -- PROTEINS IN MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM TRANSPORT / Carafoli, E. / Schwerzmann, K. / Roos, I. / Crompton, M. -- CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES AND COOPERATIVITY IN THE MECHANISM OF PROTON TRANSFER IN BACTERIORHODOPSIN / Hess, B. / Korenstein, R. / Kuschmitz, D. -- PROTEINS OF BACTERIAL ACTIVE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS / Boos, W. -- THE DEPENDENCE OF MEDIATED TRANSPORT SYSTEMS ON THE CHOLESTEROL CONTENT OF THE MEMBRANE / Wilbrandt, W. / Becker, C. -- ION CHANNELS IN EXCITABLE MEMBRANES / Hucho, F. -- SECTION IV. METAL TRANSPORT BY PROTEINS -- FERRITIN IROW DEPOSITION AMD MOBILISATION : MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND CELLULAR CONSEQUENCES / Crichton, R. R. -- THE FERRITIN MOLECULE: A SIMK AND A SOURCE FOR IRON / Harrison, P. M. / Banyard, S .H. / Clegg, G. A. / Stammers, D. K. / Treffry, A. -- THERMODYNAMIC AND ACCESSIBILITY FACTORS IN THE SPECIFIC BINDING OF IRON TO HUMAN TRANSFERRIN / Aisen, P. / Leibman, A. -- HEME TRANSPORT AND PROPERTIES OF HEMOPEXIN / Muller-Eberhard, U. -- A GENETIC DEFECT IN THE TRANSPORT OF CERULOPLASMIN-COPPER FROM BLOOD TO B I L E AS THE POSSIBLE PATHOGENESIS OF W I L S O N ' S DISEASE / Scheinberg, I . H. -- SECTION V. MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF TRANSPORT BY PROTEINS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY -- PHARMACOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PLASMA PROTEIN AND TISSUE BINDING OF DRUGS / Bickel, M. H. -- THE EFFECTS OF TRYPTOPHAN AND TYROSINE MODIFICATION ON THE DRUG-BINDING PROPERTIES OF HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN / Müller, W. E. / Fehske, K. J. / Wollert, U. -- TRANSFER OF FERRIPROTOPORPHYRIN IX FROM HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN TO APOMYOGLOBIN IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION / Blauer, G. / Silfen, J. -- THE ROLE OF INTRACELLULAR PROTEINS IN THE TRANSPORT AND METABOLISM OF LIPOPHILIC COMPOUNDS / Tipping, E. / Ketterer, B. -- BINDING PROTEINS IN PLASMA AND LIVER CYTOSOL, AND TRANSPORT OF BILIRUBIN / Meuwissen, Jules A. T. P. / Heirwegh, Karel P. M. -- CONCLUDING REMARKS / Aisen, P. -- INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX